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About 3 years ago, a woman named Kelly Walsh from the UK contacted me and told me about a spiritually transformative experience she had following her suicide attempt, from which she woke up exclaiming like-minded souls would collaborate to change the world!

Not knowing exactly what that meant nor what it had to do with her, she began searching the internet for others who had glimpses into other realities, especially near-death experiencers. Along the way she came across Dr. Penny Satori, a nurse in the UK who researched near-death experiences among her patients for her PhD and just released her book “The Wisdom of the Near-Death Experience,” and she had just had a baby, when Kelly approached her with the idea for another book. She gave Kelly the task of finding the “like-minded souls” and that’s how she found me and about 20 others whose stories of transformation are now available in this November 2o17 release The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences: How the Messages of NDEs Positively Impact the World by Dr Penny Sartori and Kelly Walsh(Watkins).

Foreword by Dr. Mick Collins, author of The Unselfish Spirit

Prologue by Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversations With God series

A chapter by Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine & Miracles

Each of us “like-minded souls” have done some amazing spiritually-guided work individually following our transformative experiences, which we each write about in our chapters (I am Chapter 10), and the purpose of this book is to support a non-profit foundation our Positivity Princess Kelly set up to fund positive programs to help children around the world rise out of suffering and poverty… a collaboration to change the world. ALL royalties from the book go to the Love Care Share Foundation. The first project involves building a school in Cambodia.

Endorsements

“A comforting portrayal of the infinite healing power of love, and the sense of connectedness with the universe that arises from such profound experiences.” —Eben Alexander, MD, neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven and The Map of Heaven.

“The Transformative Power of NDEs has the power within its pages to open the hearts minds and souls of every person that reads it.” —Anita Moorjani, NDEr and New York Times Best Selling Author of Dying to Be Me.

After you read the book, PLEASE go back to amazon.com or your favorite bookselller and write a review (it will help increase book sales with all royalties going to fund programs to help children around the world through the Love Care Share Foundation.

I’ve been involved with trying to understand and describe the Near-Death Experience since I had one on 7/18/1971, almost 45 years ago, and have seen it evolve from being called a religious experience to a psychotic break to hallucinations to confirmation that consciousness survives death of the body and proof of life after death. I’ve also seen it turned into something meaningless by people who could have been killed or nearly died or who had a close brush with death, such as this fish who had a series of unfortunate events–

Nearly dying or even being resuscitated after one’s heart stops, is not a “near-death” experience as defined by Dr. Raymond Moody (Life After Life), who coined the term. What makes an event a near-death experience is becoming aware one is outside their physical body, still conscious, still able to see and hear what’s going on around them, with the ability to move through solid walls. Conscious awareness leaves the body and exists independently then returns to the body and remembers an out-of-body experience. Some people may only experience a brief glimpse and then their consciousness quickly returns to their body; some nothing at all; others may travel toward the Light, meet other beings, have multiple experiences in other dimensions, and be given the choice to return to their body. A brief flash or an extended period of time out of body, these are all near-death experiences.

There have been attempts in literature to explain these strange experiences, perhaps from psychedelic drug trips of the authors. I’d say from my own experiments with drugs trying to recreate my own near-death experience that Lewis Carrol probably did mushrooms (I saw all those strange underground people too) and Frank Baum probably did cocaine (I would compare it to LSD visions but it wasn’t around in 1900). It’s the shift from black and white to colors in Oz that make me think so. But not a one of them was comparable to my near-death experience.

I’ve seen some weird shit too that is very difficult to put into words that accurately describe what I experienced but since I experimented with LSD, cocaine, mushrooms, and MDMA (Ecstasy) 15 years later hoping to recreate my NDE, I have something to compare it to. I remember the details and the emotions I experienced during my NDE, but very little from any drug experiences even though they were more recent. The NDE changed who I am, the drugs did not. I have no fear of death since my NDE. The main thing I found is that every drug trip felt unreal, unnatural, bizarre, strange, not quite right, out of my control in one way or another. During my NDE, everything seemed more real than life on earth, like this was home, this was the true reality and I felt loved unconditionally, that I belonged, that I had done this dying thing before, and it’s all part of our spiritual journey. When I talk with another near-death experiencer, we know exactly what we’re trying to convey. We can finish each others sentences. But to try to tell someone who hasn’t been there is difficult.

I have to use analogies from the physical world. The closest I can come using a visual comparison to “seeing the Light” in the physical world is if you were SCUBA diving in crystal clear ocean waters, down about 50-60 feet… turn over on your back, become very still and look up at the surface of the water. In this crystal clear water, it seems like there is nothing between you and the surface, and you are simply hovering in space. There is no gravity or pressure on your physical body so it seems as if you are simply one with everything. And there is this light shining down from the surface. It is the sun, with rays of light that extend across the top of the water making it sparkle and twinkle like diamonds. Tiny water droplets form orbs that flirt about as if they might be angels. You can look into the light but it doesn’t hurt your eyes. It’s compelling, almost calls you to it; beckons you to join it, become one with it. And when we do, we remember who we really are and what we learned along the way.

And that’s what dying is about. It’s a welcome home after a sojourn on planet Earth. We just can’t re-create that with a drug trip. A drug trip can be a great experience or a terrible experience, it could expand your consciousness or shut down your mind. A near-death experience may cure cancer and heal a broken body or a wounded soul.

We’ll just have to wait until our bodies give out to experience that bliss and, really, drugs are an experience not a lifestyle… in the meantime we’re here to have fun, learn, explore, create, imagine, invent, play, learn to communicate, have relationships, help each other grow and thrive, figure out who we are and why we came here, so Earth remains one of the best places to live an occasional lifetime as a human along our eternal spiritual journey.

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THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO

COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

Readers’ questions to a near-death experiencer at BeyondtheVeil.net

Chapter One

Near-Death Experiences

*Nothing on earth had prepared me for the reality of life after death

Your Q&A approach covers every question that I had before I had thought of them yet. “Nothing on Earth Had Prepared Me For the Reality of Life After Death” was the most profound, insightful piece of writing I have yet found in all of the NDE books I have read. I know how impossible it is to put NDE subjects in relatable or fresh terms, but I think you succeeded. –RJ